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I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

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Karen Kingsbury
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 8
Journalist
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Fairfax
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This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner.
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Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
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The general market wants what I do.
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A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.
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There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.
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You're gifted to do something.
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Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose.
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God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.
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Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.
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It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.
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But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.
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Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.
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I write about true-life type things.
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The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.
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People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.
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sunshine is just beyond the clouds Carl Joesph Gunner
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I'm probably the most loquacious author when it comes to my dedications. The reason is there is some symbolism there. I've been writing these books, bringing these stories to my readers who I love so much, and I have a greater love for my family.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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